{"id":2162,"date":"2012-06-18T16:22:05","date_gmt":"2012-06-18T21:22:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/?p=2162"},"modified":"2012-07-03T14:11:07","modified_gmt":"2012-07-03T19:11:07","slug":"untitled-short-story-from-tlv-158-by-vera-p","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/untitled-short-story-from-tlv-158-by-vera-p\/","title":{"rendered":"Untitled short story from TLV #158 (by Vera P.)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Just about this time last summer my friend Steve and I went to the Sardis Lake beach. The day was beautiful, and we were mindlessly enjoying clear water, bright sun, and fragrant air. The beach was empty, only a small group of people fishing nearby. Very nice older lady,\u00a0perm on her white hair,\u00a0with a snorting and wheezing pug, stopped to talk to us. She was a smiley librarian from Sardis. We discussed\u00a0the weather, books, and dogs.<\/p>\n

Everything went fine-until it was time to go home. We went back to the truck, Steve looked at me and asked, \u201cWhere are my shorts?\u201d, like I was certified and assigned shorts keeper. He started looking for them in a truck, outside, on the seats, under the seats, in all trash cans around, everywhere!<\/p>\n

But they disappeared…<\/p>\n

Relaxed and happy to have a day off, he left the window down on his side, and didn\u2019t lock the door (no matter he was in National Guard almost all his life long and always taught me how to be secure and safe).\u00a0 After changing in the swimming trunks, Steve left his shorts, wallet and underwear all\u00a0rolled up on his seat in a plain sight.\u00a0A picture of a clear temptation\u2026 I was so happy the thief didn\u2019t notice MY purse behind MY seat!<\/p>\n

\"\"Angry and frustrated, Steve went to the group of fishermen and questioned them. They didn\u2019t see anything, but one guy suggested that shorts\u00a0location was somewhere in a ditch now- and they all immediately jumped into the beat up dirty white van and left. It seemed very suspicious, so I decided to memorize the license plate number. My friend called park rangers, police, reported his credit cards stolen. It took time, there were all the questions\u00a0and tedious paperwork following. I proudly gave the cop a license plate number I memorized, but he didn\u2019t seem impressed much…<\/p>\n

Finally we took off, all distracted and tired, but very soon Steve hit the brakes. The poor shorts were laying there, in a ditch, exactly the way it was described! Steve jumped out,\u00a0inspected them, found the wallet with all credit cards intact in the pocket and screamed,<\/p>\n

\u201cDamn perverse librarian! She stole my favorite boxers!!!\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

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\nThis article was published in The Local Voice<\/em> #158 (June 14-28, 2012)…<\/strong>Click here to download the PDF of issue #158<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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